103 Quotes about Living Life To The Fullest & In the Moment

Looking for some motivation to live life to the fullest? Check out these top 100 quotes to help you live in the moment.

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Top 10 Quotes about Living Your Life to the Fullest (BEST)

1. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Joe Lewis

2. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln

3. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” William Feather

4. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs

5. “The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” Louis E. Boone

6. 'Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.' Les Brown Share on X

7. “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” Danny Kaye

8. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” Eleanor Roosevelt (Read also the Fear of the Unknown)

9. “In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?” Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book

10. “Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” Mark Twain

11. “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.” Albert Einstein

Short Quotes about Living Life to the Fullest

12. ”This is your moment. Own it.” Oprah Winfrey

13. “Success is loving life and daring to live it.” Maya Angelou

14. “You are what you do, not what you say you do.” Carl Jung

15. “If you love life, life will love you back.” Arthur Rubinstein

16. “Live life to the fullest.” Earnest Hemmingway

17. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” Henry David Thoreau

18. “Today is the blocks with which we build.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

19. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” Cherralea Morgen

20. “A life without cause is a life without effect.” Barbarella

Famous Quotes about Living Life to the Fullest

21. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” Steve Jobs

22. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt

23. “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” Anais Nin

24. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” Oscar Wilde

25. “Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.” Walt Whitman

26. 'To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.' Pema Chodron Share on X

27. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller

28. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. “Nothing is worth more than this day.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

31. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein

Quotes about Living in the Moment

32. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” Thich Nhat Hahn

33. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean

34. “All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.” Byron Katie

35. “Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.” Thich Nhat Hahn

36. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” Henry David Thoreau

37. 'Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.' Deepak Chopra Share on X

38. “This is real freedom – the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.” Deepak Chopra

39. “Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.” Dale Carnegie

40. “Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don’t allow the past to interfere, and you will be surprised that life is such an eternal wonder, such a mysterious phenomenon and such a great gift that one simply feels constantly in gratitude.” Osho

41. “Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.” Michel de Montaigne

42. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” The Buddha

43. “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” Gilda Radner

44. 'Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.' Mother Teresa Share on X

45. “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” Wayne Dyer

46. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” Oprah Winfrey

47. “Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.” Oprah Winfrey

48. “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.” Ann Richards

49. “The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.” Thomas S. Monson

50. “Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.” Thich Nhat Hanh

51. “We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.” Thich Nhat Hanh

52. 'Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.' Oprah Winfrey Share on X

53. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” Jim Rohn

54. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver

55. “Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?” Goldie Hawn

56. “You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.” Jon Kabat-Zinn

57. “The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” Abraham Maslow

58. “Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.” Leo Buscaglia

69. “With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational Quotes about Living Life to the Fullest

70. “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.” Grace Hansen

71. “I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.” Gene Simmons

72. “Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” Pope Paul VI

73. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin

74. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” Seneca

75. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” Maya Angelou

76. “It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.” Margaret Bonnano

77. “We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.” Charles Schaefer

78. 'There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.' Christopher Morley Share on X

79. “Live life to the fullest because it only happens once.” Maddi Jenkins

80. “Every day, it’s important to ask and answer these questions: “What’s good in my life?” and “What needs to be done?” Nathaniel Branden

81. “We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.” Charles Schaefer

82. “If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” Emile Zola

83. “While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.” Kelsey Grammer

84. “Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.” Michelle Cruz Rosado

85. “Only when we let go of fear do we allow ourselves to live life to the fullest.” Maria Koszler

86. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” Holly Morris

Uplifting Quotes about Living Life to the Fullest (MOTIVATION)

87. “They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!” Osho

88. “Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.” Osho

89. “I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.” Osho

90. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” Henry David Thoreau

91. “Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.” Melody Beattie

92. “You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

93. 'The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.' Eleanor Roosevelt Share on X

94. “Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.” Arthur Gordon

95. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” William James

96. “Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” Don Miguel Ruiz

97. “Living life to the fullest means continually reaching out for newer, richer, deeper, life-changing experiences. It means using those experiences as a means for personal growth and pushing the boundaries of yourself mentally, spiritually, and intellectually for the betterment of yourself and the world at large.” Zero Dean

98. “You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being fully alive, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.” Gabrielle Roth

99. “As human beings, we are most fully alive when we are changing and growing and stretching our boundaries in our quest to be all we can be.” Matthew Kelly

100. 'Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.' Share on X

101. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” John Lennon

102. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” Stephen King

103. ”We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later.” Pema Chodron